I can't believe Democrats wasted all that time analyzing Nancy Pelosi's freezer like it was the Zapruder film oh no wait that was the psychopathic cool kids On Here.
Every minute spent trying to figure out if Pete Buttigieg was a CIA agent because he had a job and visited Africa could have been spent about the realities of a post-Roe world, but that was cringe winemom stuff.
Where was all this concern for abortion when people were calling Biden the new Mengele for telling people they could find a testing place on the site they use 40 times a day.
We spent like a month debating bussing, an issue that has been dead since the 70s, while Republicans openly gloated about how they were going to end women's rights as we know it.
Republicans were making laws that forced women to pass through the 36 Chambers of Shaolin to enter the state's one abortion clinic, and the luminaries of Twitter were trying to prove Biden was faking have a camera in his basement.
And who can forget: Defund the Police. We spent countless hours debating a policy that polled only slightly higher than chlamydia when we could have been talking about how states could weather the post-Roe storm.
Oh and there was that week in the primary where everyone became anti-anti-truancy, that was time well spent.
And of course, the big one: the years that this site and the entire activist world, from the ACLU to the NAACP, pursued an obsessive, monomaniacal, Ahab-like crusade to not pay back one loan. All time that could have been spent lobbying governors.
In the days leading up to the court leak, the topic that dominated this site was whether 10 thousand US American smackeroos was enough free money for lawyers and doctors, or if they needed five times more.
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I'm sort of reminded how Bernie beat Biden in every head to head poll, because people are really bad at determining what decisions they'd make in future scenarios. Lets wait until the decision is actually made and Republicans get that green light.
Hyperglots do exist, though they're rare. It's interesting that the writer is awed by a mere carpet cleaner having this ability though. Kinda makes you wonder if perhaps our idea of "intelligence" is actually a socially constructed pattern of talents and not a set thing.
Back in the deepest doldrums of my depression, a social worker suggested I just pick up a McDonald's job to have something to do in the day. I said I wasn't smart enough. He said "that's crazy, you're so smart!"
I said, "have you ever actually watched a McDonald's cashier work? They make your change while taking the next order. I literally don't have the cognitive skills to do that without error for more than a few minutes."
Reading game journalism for the first time in years has been a very abe-simpson-in-the-burlesque-house dot gif experience for me.
I don't want to pick on Polygon too much because they were a big gamergate target, but they do seem to apply a first year humanities grad student level of understanding to games.
Yes, Regalla is quite literally an angry Black woman, but the Angry Black Woman stereotype is based on the idea that Black women are crazy if they demand to have a seat at the table, not that they're hellbent on overthrowing a king who dishonored them.
I once said that if I had any artistic talent, I'd recreate famous paintings but with everyone looking at their phones and make a zillion dollars off pretentious dickheads.
La Grand Jatte with everyone looking at their phones. The Last Supper with everyone looking at their phones. Degas's ballerinas on their phones. Why was I born with the drawing skills of a stroke victim.
Any artist not painting Liberty Leading The People but she's holding a phone instead of a flag is leaving money on the table.